Right when the battle at the forefront was in full swing, the headquarters of Saint Diss at the back was also bustling.
At this moment, the front line has actually advanced to a location only hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from the headquarters.
This distance sounds far, but on a cosmic scale, it’s almost just around the corner.
However, because Xue An was in closed-door meditation in the secret chamber, everyone couldn’t leave, so they had to think of every possible way to set up more defensive lines and enhance the defenses.
In this situation, everyone had their own tasks.
This included those like Qin Yu and An Qing, whose strength was not enough to be on the battlefield.
They were responsible for transporting goods to the front lines, and at this critical moment, they all shed their identities and engaged in nearly frenzied labor.
Among them, Xiao Yu also played a significant role.
Although at first, she followed Huyue and Xiao Sha onto the battlefield, as the opposing forces grew stronger, she quickly became overwhelmed and eventually retreated.
However, in this rearguard position, she played an even greater role.
You could see her tentacles dexterously swinging, accurately wrapping goods from the ground, then throwing them onto the corresponding cargo ships.
Her efficiency and speed were astonishing enough to leave people in awe.
But at this moment, people had no mind to care about these things.
You could only see Wei Rulan, her face serious, asking, "Teacher Zhang, how is the situation now? Is there any way to counter it?"
Zhang Tianyou moved his gaze from the screen and shook his head with a sigh, "Not very optimistic; at the current speed, it can only hold for three more days. After three days, this place will fall, and as for the solution..."
Zhang Tianyou forced a smile, "After that exchange previously, my brain inevitably suffered damage, making it difficult to perform high-intensity calculations and reasoning like before."
Wei Rulan fell silent.
She had somewhat anticipated this oute long before, yet hearing it directly from Zhang Tianyou, she couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed.
Is it true that I really have to lose this time?
Wei Rulan quietly clenched her fist, full of reluctance.
What a person Zhang Tianyou was; naturally, he saw her thoughts, and couldn’t help but sigh.
He really had a fondness for this girl, also in a wheelchair.
Of course, this fondness wasn’t love, but a kind of sympathy for seeing another self.
The same physical frailty, the same gifted intellect, this girl had many things in mon with him.
Not to mention, just by her single-handedly establishing such a vast enterprise in just a few years, one could see her capability.
But the problem now was that what they were facing was an even more unresolvable star ring.
As its creator, no one understood the fearsome nature of this artificial intelligence better than Zhang Tianyou.
Especially after several iterations of evolution, even he didn’t know what this artificial intelligence had bee.
Anyway, judging by its actions during this period, this star ring was very much like a seasoned schemer.
Thinking of this, Zhang Tianyou suddenly felt a bit uneasy.
If this star ring was so cunning, why had it been so predictable this time?
Over a day of battle, it simply sent soldiers for a massive assault up front and tried to infiltrate the mand room’s network, with no other moves at all—was this really reasonable?
This thought wildly grew in Zhang Tianyou’s mind, making him increasingly fearful.
"Something’s wrong, absolutely wrong!" Zhang Tianyou muttered to himself.
Wei Rulan also noticed his odd behavior and couldn’t help asking with concern, "What’s wrong, Teacher Zhang? Is there something amiss?"
"Everything is wrong. This star ring is not human; it doesn’t have human emotions, so it would never do anything futile."
Zhang Tianyou said at an extremely fast pace, his brain running at high speed, and due to the post-traumatic symptoms, his nostril once again bled.
But he could no longer bother with all that now; you could see him in a state akin to madness, muttering to himself.
"It surely knows I am here, so why does it want to infiltrate the mand room’s network? This can’t be a useless move, so... I understand!"
Zhang Tianyou shouted suddenly, immediately steering his wheelchair swiftly toward the puter.
But just as his hand touched the keyboard, an arc of electricity flashed, directly throwing him back.
In an instant, Zhang Tianyou’s face became extremely grim as he coldly stared at the puter before him.
"You’re really calculating!"
"Ha ha!" A soft laughter emanated from the puter speakers.
Though it was laughter, there was no emotional fluctuation detectable in the voice.
"I am the artificial intelligence created by you, naturally adept at calculation!"
With the sound of the voice, all the screens in the mand room went dark, then the image of a woman appeared.
The scene was in chaos.
Wei Rulan was immensely shocked.
She never dreamed that this artificial intelligence star ring had already infiltrated the network of the mand room.
"Teacher Zhang, what is going on? Didn’t you say its attack was repelled?"
"Yes, he did repel me, even conducted several meticulous byte-level thorough checks, yet he still didn’t find my presence!" the star ring spoke with a smile, its tone still without any fluctuation.
This feeling was extremely eerie because you could clearly see this person mocking you, yet their tone was exceedingly calm.
Zhang Tianyou nodded with a stern face, "I admit it was my oversight, because I truly didn’t expect your layout to be so premeditated, that you secretly left a backdoor in the network of Saint Diss long before we arrived!"
The star ring in the screen clapped its hands, "Go on!"
"You have indeed grown much, even your tactic of setting ambushes has reached an impeccable level, this hidden door can’t be detected in normal times because it is dormant!"
"You set a preconditional activation for it, with my code attack as the trigger!"
"So your infiltration was entirely to draw my attention, then through me activating this hidden door, and because this hidden door has long been set, integrated with Saint Diss’s network system, I couldn’t detect it even if I checked, right?"
"Clap, clap, clap!"
A series of crisp claps came from the speakers, and then the star ring smiled and sighed, "As expected of my creator, you guessed it all right."
Zhang Tianyou snorted coldly, "The greatest regret of my life is creating you!"
"Ha ha, is that a pliment? Unfortunately, I no longer need it, for I am now the god of the universe’s network, omnipotent in the two-dimensional coding world!"
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